Posts tagged 1950s

Nobody listens anymore. I can’t talk to the walls because they’re yelling at me, I can’t talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it’ll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Willy Ronis, Venise Fondamenta Nueva,, 1959

Willy Ronis, Venise Fondamenta Nueva,, 1959

Lev Borodulin, Dangerous Crossing, 1956, printed before 1973

Lev Borodulin, Dangerous Crossing, 1956, printed before 1973

“What I am looking for… is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term mute music.” — Joan Miro Yousuf Karsh, Pablo Casals, 1954 (Karsh, p. 163)

“What I am looking for… is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term mute music.” — Joan Miro

Yousuf Karsh, Pablo Casals, 1954 (Karsh, p. 163)

Yakov Khalip, Fathers to the Front, Children to the Factories, Moscow, 1941

Yakov Khalip, Fathers to the Front, Children to the Factories, Moscow, 1941

Willy Ronis, La Péniche aux enfants, Paris, 1959, printed 1985 [mon paris (paris: denoël, 1985), plate 24]

Willy Ronis, La Péniche aux enfants, Paris, 1959, printed 1985 [mon paris (paris: denoël, 1985), plate 24]